Bithiah

Bithiah was the daughter of Pharaoh Ramesses I and the adoptive mother of Moses.

Biography
Bithiah was the daughter of Pharaoh Ramesses I, and her husband had died prior to 1571 BC. That year, she prayed for a child, and the baby Moses, who had been sent down the Nile River in a basket by his mother Jochebed (who intended to save him from the massacre of the Egyptian newborns), washed up next to her as she and her maidens bathed in the river (a ritual which she undertook to cleanse herself of the impurity of idolatrous Egypt). Bithiah took pity on him, knowing that she was one of the Hebrews' children, and Moses' older sister Miriam (who had been sent to accompany the basket) asked if she should find a Hebrew woman to nurse the child. Bithiah allowed her to, and Miriam brought Jochebed to Bithiah, who hired her, not knowing that she was really the child's mother. Bithiah named the child "Moses" and raised him as her own, and he was raised as a prince of Egypt, as he was the adoptive grandson of Pharaoh Ramesses I and the adoptive brother of the future Ramesses II. She was later exiled by Pharaoh Seti I for bringing Moses into the royal family, as Seti discovered that Moses was a Jew, and Bithiah left Egypt with an adult Moses and married Mered of the Tribe of Judah.